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Question 1

the position that something occupies on Earth’s surface

Answer 1

Location

Question 2

the name given to a place on Earth

Answer 2

Toponym

Question 3

The physical character of a place

Answer 3

Site

Question 4

Is the location relative to other places

Answer 4

Situation

Question 5

a combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as Agriculture and Industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation.

Answer 5

Cultural Landscape

Question 6

an area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics

Answer 6

Formal /Uniform Region

Question 7

is an area organized around a node or focal point.

Answer 7

Functional/Nodal Region

Question 8

Is an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity

Answer 8

Vernacular/Perceptual Region

Question 9

the body of customary beliefs, marital traits, and social forms that gather constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people

Answer 9

Culture

Question 10

careers within a region of the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature

Answer 10

Spatial Association

Question 11

force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope

Answer 11

Globalization

Question 12

conducts research, operate factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principal shareholders are located

Answer 12

Transnational Corporation

Question 13

The extent of a features spread over space.

Answer 13

Concentration

Question 14

the geometric arrangement of objects in space

Answer 14

Pattern

Question 15

examines how the powerful in a society dominated, or seek to control less powerful groups, how the dominated groups occupies space, and confrontations that result from the domination

Answer 15

Poststructuralist Geography

Question 16

is a branch of human geography that emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings

Answer 16

Humanistic Geography

Question 17

emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological bias for individual human actions in space

Answer 17

Behavioral Geography

Question 18

the increasing Gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy

Answer 18

Uneven Development

Question 19

Is the process by which a group cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group

Answer 19

Assimilation

Question 20

the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups

Answer 20

Acculturation

Question 21

is the combination of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature

Answer 21

Syncretism

Question 22

is the process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another overtime

Answer 22

Diffusion

Question 23

a place from which and Innovation originates

Answer 23

Hearth

Question 24

the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

Answer 24

Relocation Diffusion

Question 25

the spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process

Answer 25

Expansion Diffusion

Question 26

is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of Authority or power to other persons or places

Answer 26

Hierarchical Diffusion

Question 27

is the rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

Answer 27

Contagious Diffusion

Question 28

is the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

Answer 28

Stimulus Diffusion

Question 29

a chain of communication that connects places

Answer 29

Network

Question 30

the farther away someone is from another the less likely the two are to interact

Answer 30

Distance Decay

Question 31

the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place

Answer 31

Space-Time Compression